[Python-Dev] [Idle-dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Jul 13 03:00:18 CEST 2010


Fred Drake wrote:

> Not when both modules are at the top level; both acceptably provide
> the same name.  The let's-play-with-it script just wasn't *intended*
> to be a module.

I wonder whether this kind of problem would be less prevalent
if the tutorials etc. encouraged naming top-level scripts with
some extension *other* than .py?

-- 
Greg


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